Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 118
You wonder at these words, but they are not difficult to prove.
Who acts: You, words · What happens: wonder, not be, prove · To what, where: words
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, words), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 wonder | nsubj |
| 2 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 words | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 words | det |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wonder | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 difficult | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 difficult | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 difficult | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 difficult | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 difficult | advmod |
| 11 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wonder | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 prove | mark |
| 13 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 difficult | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wonder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | present | You | this words | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | words = word | difficult property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | prove | to-infinitive | words = word not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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